This volume collects 22 of the papers presented at the International Workshop on the Semantics/Syntax of Possessive Constructions, held at UMass, Amherst, May 6-8, 2002.

Contents:

The English pronominal Genitive and lexical semantics Per Anker Jensen and Carl Vikner Genitives, types, and sorts: The Russian Genitive of Measure Vladimir B. Borschev and Barbara H. Partee On Genitive and ‘stability’: Evidence from Russian Ekaterina Rakhilina Possessives in context Gianluca Storto Possessive weak definites Chris Barker Genitives and determiners Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin Lexical information and choice of determiners Malvina Nissim Maria’s ring of gold: Adnominal possession and non-anchoring relations in European languages Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm Individual-denoting and property-denoting possessives Uri Strauss Regular and generic possessives in Maltese Albert Gatt More puzzles about postnominal Genitives Helen Trugman The syntax of possessors in the nominal phrase: Drawing the lines and deriving the forms Gilbert C. Rappaport Deriving the restrictions on pronominal complements of nouns Maria Babyonyshev The possessor that came home Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva The structural asymmetry between possessors and possessums Sungeun Cho Dealing with relevant possessors Yury A. Lander Meronyms and enlarged arguments Ignazio Mauro Mitro Splitting of possessive NPs and external possessor in Russian Elena V. Paducheva Extra argumentality – A binding account of “possessor raising” in German, English, and Mandarin Daniel Hole From headless possessives to associative plurals Michael Daniel Genitives of substance and locative verbs in French Fabienne Martin On the aspect of reading of Georgian anaphors in subject position Nino Amiridze